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Newsletter

Status

Tiki newsletter is pretty basic but it is tested & stable. It offers tight integration within Tiki. For example it is possible to subscribe a group to a newsletter (and groups can be included in groups). Each newsletter can have distinct permissions to subscribe, send, etc.


Related: Webmail, Inter-User Messages

Bugs & Wishes

Open or Pending

Items found: 26
Title LastModif Resolution Status Submitted By Volunteered Category Version Feature Priority
Unable to "unsubscribe" from Newsletter 28 Oct 13   Steve  
  • Usability
  • Patch
  • Developer Training
9.x Newsletters 56
Send Newsletters sends to only one subscriber 24 Jan 17 Please retest jpurssey  
  • Error
15.x Newsletters 50
Add IP to syslog and/or action log when anons (at least) add content (for spam protection) 14 Jan 10   Xavier de Pedro  
  • Usability
  • Feature request
  • Less than 30-minutes fix
3.x
4.x
5.x
Trackers
Calendar
Newsletters
Comment
Spam protection (Anti-bot CAPTCHA)
Logs (system & action)
Community Currency
48
Newsletter - Clipper - Articles - Blog 11 Oct 10   Torsten Fabricius   45
Newsletter Sent, Attachment Dropped 13 Apr 18 Confirmed bfw25  
  • Error
18.x Newsletters 45
RFE: admin interface 4 template message emailed to new users to a group (registered, or others) 03 Oct 11   Xavier de Pedro   40
Community/Customer/Constituent Relationship Management system (CRM) 24 Dec 10 Fix on the Way Marc Laporte   40
Newsletter: Format impure 25 Jun 21 New hman  
  • Bug
18.x Newsletters 40
Broken images in Newsletters in 12.x (images sent with relative links) 21 Sep 14 Confirmed Xavier de Pedro Jonny Bradley
  • Regression
  • Less than 30-minutes fix
12.x Regression
13.x Regression
14.x Regression
Newsletters 40
Newsletter which includes article(s) plugin loose format and doesn't show images which are included in the articles 21 Nov 15   bchauchat  
  • Regression
12.x Regression Article
Newsletters
40
Trackers: email field type -> ask email twice and check that they match (same thing for newsletters) 28 Oct 21   Marc Laporte  
  • Easy for Newbie Dev
  • Feature request
24.x
2.x
Newsletters
Trackers
Wiki Plugin (extends basic syntax)
36
Newsletter: Drafts can only be sent or deleted, nothing else 25 Jun 21 New hman  
  • Consistency
18.x Newsletters 35
4.0: changing newsletter editor from wysiwyg to normal produces blank page 19 Nov 09   Xavier de Pedro   30
Newsletters, Subscriptions: Add an option to notify when user subscribe/unusbscribe 22 Feb 22 Confirmed Marc Laporte Adrien
  • Usability
  • Feature request
1.9.x
23.x
25.x
Group
Newsletters
30
Subscribe users to newsletter based on last login 24 Feb 08   Rick Sapir / Tiki for Smarties   25
Can't attach file to newsletter 21 Jul 10   julesd   25
Newsletter group subscription inheritance problematic 02 Dec 08   GlenWhitney   25
Extra lines added to newletters in html mode 17 Mar 15 New Arild Berg  
  • Usability
12.x
14.x
Newsletters 24
Option to send personalised newsletters 23 Oct 17 New Torsten Fabricius  
  • Feature request
17.x
18.x
Trackers
Newsletters
21
6.4svn regression: Maketoc shown twice in newsletter sent from wiki page template 03 Nov 13 Please retest Xavier de Pedro  
  • Regression
6.x Newsletters
Wiki Syntax (text area, parser, external wiki, etc)
20
Mail-List System Feature Enhancement - FeedBlitz newsletter RSS/ATOM 08 Dec 13   Daniel Gauthier Régis Barondeau
  • Feature request
7.x Integrator
Interaction (with the outside World)
Newsletters
20
Printing/ e-mailing Multiple Blog entries based on date 06 Jul 10   Afrobaggie   20
Newsletter fails to be sent properly if article clipping is involved 09 Jan 17 New Xavier de Pedro  
  • Error
  • Community projects
  • Dogfood on a *.tiki.org site
  • Regression
  • Conflict of two features (each works well independently)
15.x
15.x Regression
Newsletters 20
Per user/group newsletter administration (adding category or object permissions) 23 Oct 17 New Torsten Fabricius  
  • Feature request
17.x
18.x
Category
Group
Newsletters
Permission
18
Newsletters not being sent out normally if Gzip output is enabled 08 May 12 New calport  
  • Conflict of two features (each works well independently)
6.x Newsletters
Performance / Speed / Load / Compression / Cache
10
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Create Item

Closed

Items found: 41
Title LastModif Resolution Status Submitted By Volunteered Category Version Feature Priority
Newsletter autoclip url for article link or image is relative (sould be absolute) 31 Mar 14 New Bernard Sfez / Tiki Specialist  
  • Error
12.x Article
Newsletters
81
Newsletter: GMail "message clipped" due to CSS too large 22 Aug 14 Invalid luciash d' being 🧙  
  • Usability
12.x Newsletters 80
Newsletter - problem in get_all_subscriber when login name contains uppercases 07 Jun 12 Fix on the Way grundsch grundsch
  • Usability
  • Patch
8.x Newsletters 63
add antibot captcha for anons to newsletters, calendars and tracker item comments 14 Jan 10 Fixed or Solved Xavier de Pedro Xavier de Pedro
  • Usability
  • Feature request
  • Less than 30-minutes fix
3.x
4.x
5.x
Trackers
Calendar
Newsletters
Spam protection (Anti-bot CAPTCHA)
Community Currency
48
Newsletters using a previous edition sent has not the expected behaviour 31 Mar 14 Please retest Bernard Sfez / Tiki Specialist Jonny Bradley
  • Error
12.x Newsletters 45
Some subscribers to a newsletter get deleted when one subscriber validates link 28 Apr 14 Not enough information Xavier de Pedro  
  • Error
12.x Newsletters 45
Newsletter "Validate email addresses" parameter reverts to NULL if you edit it (v2.2) 02 Feb 09 Fixed or Solved Geoff Brickell   45
"Unsubscribe" fonction in newsletter mail unsubscribe the wrong e-mail adress 13 Jul 05 Fixed or Solved cipuf sylvieg 45
Newsletter Preview gives a false impression of resultant outcome as a received e-mail 06 Jun 13   Geoff Brickell  
  • Feature request
2.x Newsletters 35
Announcements: There should be an easier way for ppl to stay up to date 07 Dec 10   tobi_h   35
add nl1 in route.php for newsletter1, etc 18 Nov 13 Fix on the Way Xavier de Pedro  
  • Feature request
12.x Newsletters 32
Newsletter subscriptions by anonymous 22 Feb 22 Fixed or Solved Bernard Sfez / Tiki Specialist  
  • Usability
6.x Newsletters 30
Permission on Newsletters using Group Permissions 18 Jun 17 Works For Me Karsten Wemheuer  
  • Error
  • Feature request
  • Patch
9.x Newsletters
Group
Permission
30
Non-critical usability bugs in Newsletters 22 Feb 22 Fixed or Solved mlpvolt  
  • Usability
6.x Newsletters 30
When a user unsubscribes from a newsletter, he is unsubscribed from all newsletters 18 Apr 09 Fixed or Solved No value for 'tracker_field_submitted_by' nyloth 30
Error message when trying to subscribe a second time to the newsletter 18 Jun 17 Out of Date Marc Laporte  
  • Error
1.9.x Database MySQL (MyISAM)
Newsletters
25
Option to send newsletters as plain text 24 Jan 17 Fixed or Solved Rick Sapir / Tiki for Smarties  
  • Feature request
2.x
3.x
Newsletters 25
Newsletter, Subscribe plugin is broken and nothing is displayed when using it 20 Feb 22 Fixed or Solved Bernard Sfez / Tiki Specialist  
  • Regression
23.x Newsletters
Wiki Plugin (extends basic syntax)
25
Newsletter boundry condition. 04 Feb 09 Out of Date Don Hughes   25
Newsletter subscribers cannot confirm subscription nor unsubscribe using links in eMails 07 Dec 08   nuzzy   25
Newsletter from address does not use Sender Email 24 Jan 17 Fixed or Solved Don Hughes sylvieg
  • Error
  • Feature request
1.9.x Admin Interface (UI)
Newsletters
25
Change to a more modern mail class 07 Apr 17 Fixed or Solved Marc Laporte  
  • Feature request
1.9.x
2.x
Alert
Infrastructure
Newsletters
Watch (email notifications of changes)
Webmail
25
archived wysiwyg Newsletters show raw html 05 Aug 15 Fixed or Solved Geoff Brickell Jonny Bradley
  • Regression
12.x Regression
13.x Regression
14.x
Newsletters 25
Newsletter completion text and download log message not shown when 'throttling' is used 13 Jan 16 Fixed or Solved Geoff Brickell  
  • Error
12.x
13.x
14.x
Newsletters 25
Newsletter plain text is lost 03 May 11   SEWilco   25
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Style adjustments

This is a micro-revamp to replace using the entire active theme stylesheet with a theme-specific newsletter.css file that contains just a subset of CSS rules that are appropriate for a newsletter.

Stylesheet generating process (subject to change)

  1. There's a theme-specific stylesheet for newsletters - themes/<themename>/css/newsletter.css
  2. which is generated from a Less file - themes/<themename>/less/newsletter.less
  3. using values from themes/<themename>/less/bootstrap-variables.less, etc.
  4. These can override a default file - themes/base_files/css/newsletter.css
  5. which is compiled from themes/base_files/less/newsletter.less,
  6. the values for which are defined in themes/base_files/tiki-variables.less.


This will produce an external or embedded stylesheet that styles HTML divs, etc. which doesn't seem to be best practice (see references following), but apparently has been working ok for past Tiki newsletters.

References about HTML email recommendations

Email Standards Project - https://www.email-standards.org/
A complete breakdown of the CSS support for the top 10 most popular mobile, web and desktop email clients on the planet. - https://www.campaignmonitor.com/css/
Using CSS and HTML in Email Newsletters - http://groundwire.org/labs/email_publishing/using_css_and_html_in_email_newsletters/index.html
CSS in HTML Email - http://kb.mailchimp.com/campaigns/ways-to-build/css-in-html-email
A Bulletproof Guide to Using HTML5 and CSS3 in Email - https://litmus.com/blog/a-bulletproof-guide-to-using-html5-and-css3-in-email

Roadmap

Next steps would be to have more of the fancy CRM-like features, like click-through tracking.

Missing features:

  • Per user/group newsletter administration based on category permission or on object permission.
    It should (shall) be possible for specified groups to provide an own group-newsletter created by a superuser, which then could (shall) be administrated by one or more specified group members / group admins whilst the newsletter admin of one group cannot (shall not) administrate or alter the newsletter(s) of another group.
    This could be accomplished by adding to the code the opportunity to categorise newsletters and to add certain admin-permissions like tiki_p_batch_subscribe_email, tiki_p_send_newsletters, tiki_p_subscribe_email, tiki_p_subscribe_newsletters, tiki_p_view_newsletter, tiki_p_list_newsletters to the category permissions (not tiki_p_admin_newsletters)
    There should be a distinction between tiki_p_admin_newsletters which includes the permission to create a new newsletter and the now not (yet) existing tiki_p_admin_newsletter which would limit admin permissions to the specific newsletter.
    see feature request (wishlist): item6469

  • Personalised Newsletter
    There are various options to fetch the eMail addresses as list of receipients of newsletters in Tiki, although one important is missing:
    There is no standard option to create personalised newsletters, either from a Tracker or from a CSV file.
    A very common and important feature for newsletters (despite Tiki doesn't cover that) is the opportunity to send personalised newsletters with personal salutations like "Dear Mr. Doe", "Dear Ms Smith", "Dear Prof. Dr. Nevertheless".
    If a newsletter could fetch a limited number of field from a Tracker by using permanent field names - optionally but not necessarily a user tracker - it would be quite easy to create a personalised newsletter.
    Additionally it could be considered to either implement an option to self-subscribe to the newsletter via the Tracker - with the problem to handle self-unsibscribe by an unsubscribe link in the sent newsletter or to add oneself to the tracker by the subscription link.
    see feature request (wishlist): item6470


doc:Newsletters

Demo

Standards and/or other software

http://tiki.org/tiki-directory_browse.php?parent=34

Other links

Newsletter with text & html patch Has someone tested this?

Templates

Alias

Newsletters

Keywords

The following is a list of keywords that should serve as hubs for navigation within the Tiki development and should correspond to documentation keywords.

Each feature in Tiki has a wiki page which regroups all the bugs, requests for enhancements, etc. It is somewhat a form of wiki-based project management. You can also express your interest in a feature by adding it to your profile. You can also try out the Dynamic filter.

Accessibility (WAI & 508)
Accounting
Administration
Ajax
Articles & Submissions
Backlinks
Banner
Batch
BigBlueButton audio/video/chat/screensharing
Blog
Bookmark
Browser Compatibility
Calendar
Category
Chat
Comment
Communication Center
Consistency
Contacts Address book
Contact us
Content template
Contribution
Cookie
Copyright
Credits
Custom Home (and Group Home Page)
Database MySQL - MyISAM
Database MySQL - InnoDB
Date and Time
Debugger Console
Diagram
Directory (of hyperlinks)
Documentation link from Tiki to doc.tiki.org (Help System)
Docs
DogFood
Draw -superseded by Diagram
Dynamic Content
Preferences
Dynamic Variable
External Authentication
FAQ
Featured links
Feeds (RSS)
File Gallery
Forum
Friendship Network (Community)
Gantt
Group
Groupmail
Help
History
Hotword
HTML Page
i18n (Multilingual, l10n, Babelfish)
Image Gallery
Import-Export
Install
Integrator
Interoperability
Inter-User Messages
InterTiki
jQuery
Kaltura video management
Kanban
Karma
Live Support
Logs (system & action)
Lost edit protection
Mail-in
Map
Menu
Meta Tag
Missing features
Visual Mapping
Mobile
Mods
Modules
MultiTiki
MyTiki
Newsletter
Notepad
OS independence (Non-Linux, Windows/IIS, Mac, BSD)
Organic Groups (Self-managed Teams)
Packages
Payment
PDF
Performance Speed / Load / Compression / Cache
Permission
Poll
Profiles
Quiz
Rating
Realname
Report
Revision Approval
Scheduler
Score
Search engine optimization (SEO)
Search
Security
Semantic links
Share
Shopping Cart
Shoutbox
Site Identity
Slideshow
Smarty Template
Social Networking
Spam protection (Anti-bot CATPCHA)
Spellcheck
Spreadsheet
Staging and Approval
Stats
Survey
Syntax Highlighter (Codemirror)
Tablesorter
Tags
Task
Tell a Friend
Terms and Conditions
Theme
TikiTests
Federated Timesheets
Token Access
Toolbar (Quicktags)
Tours
Trackers
TRIM
User Administration
User Files
User Menu
Watch
Webmail and Groupmail
WebServices
Wiki History, page rename, etc
Wiki plugins extends basic syntax
Wiki syntax text area, parser, etc
Wiki structure (book and table of content)
Workspace and perspectives
WYSIWTSN
WYSIWYCA
WYSIWYG
XMLRPC
XMPP




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